Sibylline Verses

When the Sibylline books were destroyed (see above), all
the floating verses of the several Sibyls were carefully collected and
deposited in the new temple of Jupiter. Augustus had some 2,000 of
these verses destroyed as spurious, and placed the rest in two gilt
cases, under the base of the statue of Apollo, in the temple on the
Palantine Hill; but the whole perished when the city was burnt in the
reign of Nero. (See Sibyls [of the mediaeval monks].)